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White men have confidence that they can bluff a Chinaman. Perhaps that fact explains why Premier Count Stephen Bethlen of Hungary proceeded, last week, to bluff the League of Nations. He knew that the Acting President of the League Council is now, by alphabetical rotation, His Excellency Tcheng Loh, the Chinese Minister at Paris...
Came the news from Budapest to Paris. Unhappy Acting League Council Chairman Tcheng Loh found himself a helpless victim of the alphabet. He was the wrong man in the wrong place. He speaks for a nation where wholesale smugglery of arms has produced incessant civil war. The very "Chinese Republic" from which he stands accredited at Paris has vanished in a welter of Chinese anarchy. Therefore his position in respect to a mere five carloads of smuggled machine gun parts was exquisitely awkward. No wonder then that Tcheng Loh betook his gangling, spidery self, last week, to the office...
Together they drafted a telegram as timid as the position of Tcheng Loh is delicate. Transmitted through the League Secretariat, this message reached Prime Minister Count Bethlen of Hungary in the following form: ". . . The Council of the League, having before it a request from the Czechoslovak, Jugoslav and Rumanian Governments and having learned from the press that the Hungarian Government is going to sell the objects to which the request refers, thinks it would be prudent to delay this project, the matter involved coming before the Council in a few days...
Last week news came of a secret meeting at Paris between five Chinese Ministers, to try and decide from what Chinese faction they would take orders. They were: Chao Hsin-chu (Minister to Rome and Representative before the League); Tcheng-loh (Minister to Paris) ; Wei Cheng-tchean (Berlin) ; Fang King-ky (Brussels) ; and Wang Kuang-ky (The Hague...
...vault, the arch, the column, the capitol. Historical sculptures and enamelled bricks. Religious sculpture. Bronze work. [Industrial arts. Babylonia and Assyria in their foreign relations. Early relations between Egypt and Babylonia; did any exist before the xviii dynasty? The Mt. Siani peninsula and the quarry-marks on the Tel-Loh sculptures. Relations with Elam; - with Syria and the Hittites; - with Phoenicia and Cyprus; - with North Arabia; - with Persia The reciprocal influence of Babylonian and Assyrian art and the artistic development of the peoples of these countries. The influence of Babylonian and Assyrian art on Hellenic art through Phoenicia and Asia...